Director’s Notes

Scream and Yell and You’ll Feel Better… or Will You? Catharsis theory, derived from the Greek word katharsis, meaning to…

Four-year-old Tharnicaa, an Australian born child of Tamil Sri Lankan parents, spent her fourth birthday in hospital being treated for…

The psychological literature on the impact of living with domestic violence presents a singular view which asserts that these conditions…

“Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the…

A gift this ANZAC day was the announcement by the federal government that, after five years of campaigning, the parliament…

Filicide, the murder of a child by their parent is perhaps one of the most distressing events for a community…

It has long been recognised that psychiatric diagnoses are powerfully influenced by social and temporal factors with some favoured in some…

When parents present a child for therapy the implicit and sometimes explicit request is to focus on ‘the person with…

Much has been written over the past year of the detrimental impact on individual, couple and family mental health and…

When the pandemic hit early in 2020 plans initially ground to a halt and it soon became clear to the executive…

Problems, symptoms, and dynamics appear in batches and recently I have encountered a challenging dynamic working with young people. The…

Children’s books are comforting. Even those that address highly painful and difficult issues like John Boyne’s The Boy in the…